As I’ve noted on this site many times, Europe never became less anti-Semitic after the Holocaust. It merely had a hudna (Arabic for “ceasefire,” also means a “resting period” before the relaunch), just like HAMAS’ recent phony hudna. And, now, Marton Gyongyosi, who leads Jobbik, Hungary’s third strongest political party is demanding a list of Jews, claiming they are a national security risk. We’re reminded, yet again, why so many Hungarian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and why the ones who survived didn’t return to Hungary.

News reports are trying to dismiss Gyongyosi as “far right,” but he is actually pretty mainstream in Hungary, and he got his anti-Semitic views from growing up in the Muslim Middle East, where his father was a diplomat. Gyongyosi was also a strong supporter of Barack Obama, according to Politics.Hu (“Hungary’s non-partisan international daily”), but lamented that Obama will not “escape the clutches of the Zionist lobby.” Gyongyosi is a Holocaust-denier with a record of comparing Israel and Jews to the Nazis.

This isn’t about left or right, neither of which has cornered the market on anti-Semitism. Plenty on the left in Europe are just as fervent in their Jew-hatred. Don’t forget how Lech Walesa, once Poland’s President and still a very revered Polish figure, constantly engaged in anti-Semitism and Jew-baiting to garner support and win elections. This stuff is endemic.

A Hungarian far-right politician urged the government to draw up lists of Jews who pose a “national security risk”, stirring outrage among Jewish leaders who saw echoes of fascist policies that led to the Holocaust.

Marton Gyongyosi, a leader of Hungary’s third-strongest political party Jobbik, said the list was necessary because of heightened tensions following the brief conflict in Gaza and should include members of parliament.

Opponents have condemned frequent anti-Semitic slurs and tough rhetoric against the Roma minority by Gyongyosi’s party as populist point scoring ahead of elections in 2014. . . .

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Hungarian Jews died in the Holocaust, according to the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest. According to some accounts, one in three Jews killed in Auschwitz were Hungarian nationals.

Gyongyosi’s call came after Foreign Ministry State Secretary Zsolt Nemeth said Budapest favored a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as benefiting both Israelis with Hungarian ancestry, Hungarian Jews and Palestinians in Hungary.

Gyongyosi, who leads Jobbik’s foreign policy cabinet, told Parliament: “I know how many people with Hungarian ancestry live in Israel, and how many Israeli Jews live in Hungary,” according to a video posted on Jobbik’s website late on Monday.

“I think such a conflict makes it timely to tally up people of Jewish ancestry who live here, especially in the Hungarian Parliament and the Hungarian government, who, indeed, pose a national security risk to Hungary.”

Gyongyosi, 35, is the son of a diplomat who grew up mostly in the Middle East and Asia — Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and India — and whose office is decorated by Iranian and Turkish souvenirs. He graduated with a degree in business and political science from Trinity College in Dublin in 2000. . . . Jobbik registered as a political party in 2003, and gained increasing influence as it radicalized gradually, vilifying Jews and the country’s 700,000 Roma.

Well, he “learned” a lot growing up in the Muslim Mid-East. The Hitler-Grand Mufti of Jerusalem partnership may be dead. But the alliance between European Jew-haters and Muslim Jew-haters is ever increasing.

Adam, there is no question that Ron and Rand Paul are neo-Nazis. This is not news to those who have followed their careers. Though Ron and Rand Paul sometimes talk like they’re patriotic Americans, that is just for show. They are, at core, rabid anti-Semites who avidly support the enemies of America and Israel–and their voting record proves it. Here’s the latest anti-Semitic tripe from Ron Paul: http://news.yahoo.com/ron-paul-blames-gaza-conflict-israel-american-middle-200300438.html.

Just to clarify, it’s both the right and left in Europe that have no shortage of Jew-hating SOBs. In America, the left has the vast majority of Jew-haters. The right, has a much smaller number. Futhermore, the vast majority of Americans support Israel.

FK: Ever hear of Pat Buchanan, Darrell Issa, Bob Novak, Taki, Joseph Sobran, Grover Norquist? All of ’em on the right and all given prominent exposure and gushing on FOX News, American Spectator, National Review, Tea Party, etc. DS

Anti-Semitism is an equal opportunity form of bigotry. And as Debbie just reminded you, the Right has its blind spot about anti-Semites as the Left does.

And with continued Third World immigration to America, American attitudes towards the Jews and Israel will change. It may not happen in my lifetime, Debbie’s lifetime or in yours but it will happen soon enough.

Let’s just say right now we’re all enjoying the calm before the storm just as we did in the 1920s and 1930s. Things are going to deteriorate for the Jewish collectivity in the future and any one who thinks otherwise is living in denial.

I agree with you, Norman. And while I know you aren’t halachally Jewish and can’t make aliyah, I really hope a lot of American Jews wake up and do so. Unfortunately, I see in my own family the biases that give rise to ridiculous excuses. My FIL is in good shape for 89, totally alert. MIL is dying and quite honestly, he’ll be a bit lost without her even tho he’s prepared. BIL is worried about him but he was so adamant in saying FIL could NEVER make aliyah at his age, even tho there are several recent cases of it being done successfully, that there is no hope of getting him here, unless he musters one last push of independence and realizes that medically, if for no other reason, he’ll be better off here. BIL doesn’t really have time to give him but we do and yet, BIL is resistant to the point he says we aren’t “family.” It’s all excuses but it may mean both of them perish.

To make aliyah, you have to have Jewish ancestors or family. A lot of Russians in Israel are not halachically Jewish but are there because they have Jewish relatives.

Most American Jews aren’t whom Israel needs. Those American Jews making aliyah tend to be Orthodox. People keep telling us the great waves of aliyah are a thing of the past. I don’t believe them.

If people had listened to them in the 30s and 40s, there would be no Israel around today. The re-emergence of anti-Semitism in Europe guarantees that still more Jews will make their way to Israel in the foreseeable future.

That’s the silver lining to all the bad news out there about Israel now.

Anti-Semitism is politically respectable again. It costs European politicians nothing to attack Jews at home. In fact the exact opposite is true with the growing Islamization of Europe. Its the votes, stupid.

Left-wing Jews are hypocritical! While they’re right to attack Jew-haters like Marton Gyongyosi, they’re also the same people who without blinking, embrace the Islamic anti-Semites of Fatah and Hamas. They’re silent about the danger to Jews posed by the growing numbers of Muslims in Europe.

Gyongyosi represents just the tip of a very vast iceberg of virulent Jew-hatred in Europe today.

Europe’s anti-Semitism has always been present. It was only between 1945 and the early 2000’s that the volume of bigotry was turned down, but the bigotry is in full volume, as Europe knows there will be no objection from the White House, as there had been under Reagan and even the second George Bush.

Given the brazen Jew-hatred and a general animosity/apathy towards Jews (and Israel) worldwide (all resulting from a profound ignorance of the history of the Jewish people), Israel should continue to make massive investments in the following:

Yeah, Reverend, let’s just chalk off anti-semitism, Holocaust, and Martin Luther’s Jew-hatred (he started it all) to some strange, un-named virus that we just can’t shake off, and let’s feel smug about it. In other words, just let it be.

Dear Cynic. Unfortunately, we have to live with a few unbearable truths.

Contrary to popular belief, Anonymous notwithstanding, the internet is NOT creating a new new-global consciousness. In fact, it’s encouraging and escalating tribalism at a much faster rate. Go to stormfront.org for a fine example.

There has been antisemitism (religious, political, racial) long before Gyongyosi, Hitler, Islam, X-tianity. Why? The hell do I know.

As long as you have the Alpha Males in each and every cult flexing their muscles and calling the shots, you’ll get some strain of tribalism brewing up.

Plus, there is no cure for cancer. Yet.

So while none of these things can be resolved in their lifetime, we should be quite content to learn to live in the real world and deal with them.

“There has been antisemitism (religious, political, racial) long before Gyongyosi, Hitler, Islam, X-tianity. Why? The hell do I know”

A good place to start if you wish to understand why Tyrants have repeatedly attacked the Jews is “The Laws of Moses: Why the NWO and Globalists Seek Israel’s Destruction” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNSMUg4Zfg – about an hour and a half.

“Plus, there is no cure for cancer. Yet.”
There are remedies. Which is why I won’t donate one cent to any of the bogus Cancer Industry “charities” like pink ribbon – but that’s an issue for another day.

Schlussel said thus:
FK: Ever hear of Pat Buchanan, Darrell Issa, Bob Novak, Taki, Joseph Sobran, Grover Norquist? All of ‘em on the right and all given prominent exposure and gushing on FOX News, American Spectator, National Review, Tea Party, etc. DS

Ever read my post that said there are far more Jew-haters on the left than the right? RIF – reading is fundamental.

Besides, your definition of a Jew-hater is someone who doesn’t want to kill every muzzie. I have a more sane view of the world. I’ve been to Tea Party meetings, they are not Jew-haters. With that comment, you are starting to sound like MSNBC. Get a grip.

Gotta love it, Europe still hates on the Jews but its not the Jews who are overruning the continent. Last I checked, Mohammaed is one of the most popular names for baby boys in England and Germany. Cultural suicide is a bitch.

If his father was a diplomat for Hungary, the man was a Communist Party hack as well. Hungary was a paid up member of the Warsaw Pact until those countries began to collapse in 1989. Non-party members would not have been stationed to an area as sensitive as the Middle East back then.

Actually, Communism thrived on antisemitism in Eastern Europe. Remember the purge trials in Eastern Europe after World War II, with the disproportionate number of Jews being tried, e.g. Anna Pauker, Slansky, the Soviet-encouraged pogroms in Poland, with the 1968 forced migration, etc. The Communists used antisemitism to appeal to the Eastern Europeans whose countries they had taken over. And except for a very brief period from late 1947 to the beginning of the Korean War (if that late), Russia and Eastern Europe not only opposed Israel, but financed Israel’s enemies.

It is critical that we understand WHY it was so critical for the anti-Semites to murder the Jews in Hungary, as much as to the know that fact itself that Jews were killed in such large numbers in Hungary.

The reason was simple. At that time, the Jews of Hungary represented the apex of intelligence and intellectual achievement in the world. Nobody, but nobody could hold a candle to them. With such a heavy concentration of Jewish brainpower, they posed a serious threat to the National Socialists. Although the Nazis nearly succeeded in wiping out that superior gene pool, even today, the Jews in Hungary STILL are the powerhouse brains and talent in Europe, though they exist in far smaller numbers.

Take a look at just some of the powerhouse intellects from the generations lost, and some still surviving today. Then compare this group to the Nazis, Muslims, and others that seek the destruction of those Jews. There IS no comparison. And that is the point. This is a short list:

Oh, I almost left out my father, Mario Lettieri who was a physician, pharmacist, painter, landscaper extraordinaire, builder and Super dad. There was nothing the man couldn’t do and when he did, he did it perfectly.

You may be right, Italkit, regarding the great Italian scientist, Enrico Fermi. At any rate, his wife was Jewish.

And civilization owes much to the Hungarian Jews. Among the very top scientists working on atomic bomb under the Manhatten Project, three of the most important were Hungarian Jews: Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and John von Neumann. (Other top Jews on the team included Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller.)

Now, speaking of the development of such an awesome destructive weapon by the United States as an important achievement of civilization may seem problematical to some. But I want you to imagine what the world would be like today–bad as it is in many respects–if, instead, Nazi Germany had developed the bomb ahead of the U.S. Don’t think they were trying to do so? Think again. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/File:German_Experimental_Pile_-_Haigerloch_-_April_1945.jpg
Today, Iran is the new Nazi Germany.

You are so correct. You know I often wonder how many Albert Einsteins, Boris Pasternaks, Ernst Chains (discovered penicillin which has saved millions including me), etc were either murdered or their parents murdered in the Holocaust ??

In my opinion besides the horror of the Holocaust, the greatest tragedy is that brightest group of people on the planet were exterminated. Imagine what the World would be like today if it had never happened.

I finally have realized that the MAIN reason for antisemitism is simple JEALOUSY !! Look at Israel–it was a desert and nothing and the Jews in 50 years turned it into the powerhouse of the Middle East. In Europe the Jews are at the top of the intelligentsia of every country and morons are jealous and hence antisemitism.

The sad thing is that the bigots CAN’T tell you one bad thing that a Jew ever did to them (that accursed comic book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and crazy conspiracy stories don’t count).

This should serve as a reminder that the Jews only have one place on earth where they truly belong: The Land of Israel. Every Jew, everwhere, should always have for himself and his loved ones, current passports and easily accessed funds sufficient to pay for passage to Israel on short notice. Of course, one could move there now, but at least have the common sense that would have saved so many of Europe’s Jews. And fear not regarding Israel: Recent Likud party elections show a very real shift to the right. Israelis are tired of appeasing their sworn enemies, tired of two-faced career politicians, and tired of leaders who place the world’s approval of Israel at the top of their priorities.

Let me get my facts strait. The holocaust deniers claim no Jews were exterminated in WWII, but they accept the existence of Nazis. The Jews much have been very busy this past 70 yrs. building fake documentation of Nazi’s detailing their precise plans of extermination of Jews. German’s are famous for detailed paperwork and there are droves of it in existence. You can’t deny one without the other!

Being just a middle aged, somewhat educated, kuffar, infidel, heretic, former Protestant, white guy, I don’t understand the Jew hatred. It all seems rather contrived to me by those who just need to hate somebody and are too stupid and lazy to even find a deserving target. And, they’ve fallen for the unceasing, professional faux victimism of Muslims and those of similar ilk. They obviously have no sense of history either. There is a pretty fair chance that the world would be an utterly different place today had it not been for Jewish scientists and engineers before, during and after WWII. And, if not for Jewish researchers and doctors, a large number of us would not even be alive today. And, I haven’t even mentioned classical music composers and performers! I live in Texas and I’m always hearing “Jews are just as bad as Muslims” and they’re always hearing from me some very naughty personally-directed Texas profanity. I just figure that not understanding the hate is a good thing.